A Race to Catch the Future: A Glance Back Michael L. Wehmeyer, Ph.D., FAAIDD
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Early Modern Times (1500-1799) 6
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Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons G. A. Doren, M.D. President 1878 to 1879 Pennsylvania Training School, Media PA Isaac N. Kerlin, M.D. President 1891 to 1892 Edouard Seguin, M.D. H. M. Knight, M.D. President 1876 to 1877 President 1879 to 1880 Hervey B. Wilbur, M.D. Charles T. Wilbur, M.D. President 1877 to 1878 George W. Brown, M.D. Second Annual Meeting President 1880 to 1881 President 1881 to 1882 9 June 12-15, 1877
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Isolation, Enlargement, and Economization 11
"a snake pit... the children live in filth… “… I think that particularly at Willowbrook, we have a situation that borders on a snake pit, and that the children live in filth, that many of our fellow citizens are suffering tremendously because lack of attention, lack of imagination, lack of adequate manpower. There is very little future for these children, for those who are in Image from Parallels in Time, Minnesota Developmental Disabilities Council these institutions. ….” http://www.mnddc.org/parallels/ 12
Christmas in Purgatory Burton Blatt, EdD President 1976 to 1977 13
The Parent Movement 14
The Parent Movement President John F. Kennedy gives Eunice Kennedy Shriver the pen he used President Kennedy addresses the 13th Annual Convention Luncheon of the National Association for Retarded Children to sign intellectual disability legislation in October, 1963 (photo from the on October 24, 1963 at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC collection of David Braddock, used with permission). (photo from the author’s collection). 15
The Self-Advocacy Movement Ed Roberts Bengt Nirje at AAMR Justin Dart at signing of ADA Tia Nellis and Elizabeth Weintraub Robert Williams at SABE Nancy Ward 16
Supports and Support Needs 17
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… 1. Understanding people as different soon becomes construed as inferior, leading to discrimination and maltreatment. 2. Separate is never equal. 3. We are constrained by our own lack of imagination. 4. We have always been wrong about what we believe people with intellectual disability can achieve. 5. The injustice committed against people with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout time has been to deny them the dignity afforded to persons simply by their status as human beings. 18
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